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13 May 2017
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What is the difference between cease and stop ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between cease and stop ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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cease: it's much more formal
Stop: less formal
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- Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong)
Cease is an intransitive verb, i.e. You can cease something. But something cannot be ceased. Just like the word "cry", it is also intransitive: You can cry, but you cannot be cried.
"Cease" also has the meaning of "discontinue" as opposed to simply stop.
When something has been going on for a while and has now stopped, you can say it has ceased.
Also, you can stop a car by braking, but it would be weird to say you cease a car by braking.
I hope this helps.
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